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Do You
Understand Me?
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First published in Danish as Kan I Forstå Mig?
in 2005 by the Videnscenter for Autisme
First published in English in 2006
by Jessica Kingsley Publishers
73 Collier Street
London N1 9BE, UK
and
400 Market Street, Suite 400
Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
www.jkp.com
Copyright © Sofie Koborg Brøsen 2006
Translation by Michael Ford
Graphics by Kasper Kruse and Karlsson2/
Illustrations by Peter Brøsen
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publisher.
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Koborg Brøsen, Sofie.
[Kan i forstå mig? English]
Do you understand me? : my life, my thoughts, my autism spectrum disorder / Sofie Koborg Brøsen.
p. cm.
"First published in Danish as Kan i forstå mig? in 2005 by the Videnscenter for Autisme"--T.p. verso.
ISBN-13: 978-1-84310-464-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-84310-464-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Koborg Brøsen, Sofie--Juvenile literature. 2. Autistic children--Denmark--Biography--Juvenile literature. I. Title.
RJ506.A9K6213 2006
618.92’858820092--dc22
[B]
2006008438
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 84310 464 3
eISBN 978 1 84642 542 4
Do You
Understand Me?
Sofie Koborg Brøsen
Jessica
